Dr. Kimberly LoPrete

Status:

Lecturer in History

University:

National University of Ireland, Galway

Department:

Department of History

Teaching:

Med. Eur.

Research:

Social, political and cultural history of medieval Europe, in particular 11th-12th c. and France; women in medieval society, notably aristocratic women; gender and lordship; the first crusade and the history of crusading; Europeans' encounters with non-Europeans and travels in Asia; medieval historical writing and uses of the past in the middle ages; manuscript studies, including palaeography, codicology and the transmission of texts